Sergei Khadzhikurbanov's pardon was confirmed to the news portal RBK by the lawyer of the former police officer, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2014. In a comment to Russian media ...

killers and thieves return to Russia, where they go free. One murderer whom Putin recently pardoned, 27-year-old Vladislav Kanyus, spent more than three hours killing his former girlfriend ...

The irony of two war criminals duking it out will be both delicious and obvious, at least to people with a sense of humor.

Khadzhikurbanov, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping to organize the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, said he had been pardoned ... criminals in Russia. Sergei G. Khadzhikurbanov, a ...

Running short of soldiers, Russia is turning to novel, long range societal fixes: restricting abortions, banning gay groups, and pardoning female inmates who conceive during marital visits. The ...

A man convicted in the 2006 killing of Russian ... former police detective, was released last year to fight in Ukraine and then signed a Defense Ministry contract to continue serving after his ...

One of the five men convicted over the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been pardoned after fighting ... s office of Moscow opened a criminal investigation in case no ...

Her seven-year sentence was handed down in the same week that former Russian detective Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who murdered Kremlin-critic Anna Politkovskaya in 2006, was pardoned by Putin for ...

Activists said the designation could put L.G.B.T.Q. people and their organizations under threat of criminal ... to side with Russia. Oleg Tsaryov, a pro-Russian businessman and former lawmaker ...